National Innovation Foundation-India (NIF) is looking for potential partners (individual engineers and designers /organizations) for undertaking value addition work in grassroots innovations, so as to convert these into marketable products by improving design, enhancing efficiency, improving safety, reducing cost without compromising on performance, etc.

The interested parties (individuals/organizations) may send their letter of intent along with the professional profile including expertise, brief of successful projects undertaken in the last three years, etc. along with name of technology(s) of interest to rakesh@nifindia.org. NIF will only get back to individuals/ organisations with proven track record of demonstrable work in the field. A non-disclosure agreement will have to be signed by the party whom NIF decides to engage with for the said work before any technical details are forwarded. Once the details have been received, the party will then send a detailed proposal including clear scope of work, methodology, deliverables, features of deliverables, timelines, cost, etc. to the email rakesh@nifindia.org latest by 20th of March, 2016. The proposals will be reviewed thoroughly before processing for approval.It is to be noted that the grassroots innovations are the intellectual property of the respective grassroots innovators and in most cases patents have been filed in the name of the innovators. Under any circumstances, the party(ies) engaged by NIF for value-addition work or those not selected, cannot publish/present any shared work as their own, or apply for patent or share with any third party. The list of innovations for which proposal are invited is given below

Sl No.

Innovation

Innovator

State

1.

Washing cum Exercise Machine

Remya Jose

Kerala

2.

Manual paddy transplanter for suiting Indian conditions

Photo Singh and Ranjeet Mirig

Uttar Pradesh and Odisha

3.

Ceiling Cooler

Gopal Salooja

Haryana

4.

Onion and garlic harvester

Shravankumar Laxmanramji Bajiya

Rajasthan

5.

Cotton Ball Picking Machine

Nattubhai R Wadher

Gujarat

6.

tree pruner (Self-propelled machine or suitable for small size tractors to be developed)